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Amanita pantherina var. pantherina
Cap: 4 – 11 cm wide, hemispheric at first, then convex to plano-convex, deep brown to hazel-brown to pale ochraceous brown, densely distributed warts that are pure white to sordid cream, minutely verruculose, floccose, easily removable. Viscid when wet, with a short striate margin. The flesh is white, unchanging when injured. Gills: free, close to crowded, white becoming greyish, truncate. Stipe: 5 – 14 cm long × .6 – 2 cm wide, subcyclindric, somewhat narrowing upward, white, becoming slightly tannish in age, stuffed then hollow, finely floccose becoming smooth above the ring, and with small appressed squamules or creamy floccose material below. The volva is white, becoming grey with age, forming one or sometimes two narrow hoop-like rings just above the bulbous base. The flesh is white, unchanging when injured.
The panther cap is an uncommon mushroom, found in both deciduous, especially beech and, less frequently, coniferous woodland and rarely meadows throughout Europe, western Asia in late summer and autumn.It has also been recorded from South Africa, where it is thought to have been accidentally introduced with trees imported from Europe.
Spotted in a mix forest near my house,under a cork oak. Pics 1 and 2 are from Oct 25,pics 3,4 and 6 are from Oct 28 and pic 5 is from Oct 29. Last pic show the begining of one ,there a lot in the area
Spotted on Oct 29, 2013
Submitted on Oct 30, 2013
2 Comments
Thanks,yes it's amazing,i have the chance of having near by a mix forest,where i can go in a daily bases,so i can follow the developement of many of them,these where a group of ,rufly a douzen ,in several stages.so it was a lesson in what concern amanita pantherina :-)
Amazing the different stages of a mushroom. Lot to learn